A polka titled "Varsouviana," the song to which this character danced with her husband in the moments before he shot himself, plays in her presence periodically. It is heard immediately after a Mexican woman selling "flowers from the dead" frightens her back into her sister's apartment in Scene Nine, where she re-joins Mitch, whom she had earlier instructed to put a Chinese paper lantern over a light bulb, as she doesn't want her age revealed by 
A polka titled "Varsouviana," the song to which this character danced with her husband in the moments before he shot himself, plays in her presence periodically. It is heard immediately after a Mexican woman selling "flowers from the dead" frightens her back into her sister's apartment in Scene Nine, where she re-joins Mitch, whom she had earlier instructed to put a Chinese paper lantern over a light bulb, as she doesn't want her age revealed by bright light. This protagonist had been dismissed from her position as a high school teacher for her improper relations with young male students after her husband's suicide, a time period during which she says she had to "rely on the kindness of strangers." Driven mad by her rape at the hands of her brother-in-law Stanley, FTP who is this sister of Stella, the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire?
A polka titled "Varsouviana," the song to which this character danced with her husband in the moments before he shot himself, plays in her presence periodically.
{Blanche DuBois}